So Wells gets Renteria’s number, Renteria gets Wells’, and everybody does well in their renewed outfits. Not sure why Renteria had to pay Wells, and not the other way around, especially with the results - 8.1 innings, 2 ER, after 2 first-inning homers! (Edgar didn’t do shabbily for himself either.) As usual, the key seemed to be throwing strikes - I think these patient teams like the Sox and the Yankees have problems with extreme strike-throwing machines. Wells clearly still has some love in his heart for New York - just listen to his quote about pitching in Yankee Stadium:“The greats, man, they’re shining down. If you don’t want to pitch here, there’s something wrong with you.” But as long as he produces results like today’s, I don’t care where his favourites are.
Even Ortiz, who seemed to be somewhat dimmed as a hitter recently, lit up the scoreboard - his homers were MONSTROUS. Upper deck? That’s incrdible.
And I love seeing Mussina get chased from the game. Absolutely love it - I don’t think there’s a starter in the Yankee rotation that’s as irritating, mostly because he keeps whining about how his schedule has been affected and so on. (It felt like his complaining about the trip to Japan in April 2004 ended only about the same time summer ended.) And for Wang, who’s been a solid starter for the Yankees, to get forced to do long relief is good news.